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Document ID (ISN)50401
CIS number 88-1547
ISBN(s) 92-832-1411-0
Year 1987
Convention or series no. IARC Monographs Supplement 7
Title Evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans - Overall evaluation of carcinogenicity: An updating of IARC Monographs Volumes 1 to 42
Bibliographic information World Health Organization, Distribution and Sales Service, 1211 Genève 27, Switzerland, 1987. 440p. Bibl. Price: CHF 65.00.
Abstract This supplement updates supplement 4 and presents conclusions and relevant data from supplement 6 concerning genetic effects and DNA and chromosome damage of the agents evaluated in vols. 1-42 and for which some data on human carcinogenicity were available. It summarises as well the data on carcinogenicity in humans and animals for all 189 agents evaluated in these volumes for which some data on human carcinogenicity were available, and it makes overall evaluations of human carcinogenicity for all 628 agents evaluated in the volumes.
Descriptors (primary) carcinogens; IARC; toxicity evaluation; chemical products; harmful substances
Descriptors (secondary) literature survey; hazard evaluation; report
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Toxic and dangerous substances
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) IARC Monographs